* org-table-copy-down feature request
@ 2014-01-25 11:32 Marcin Borkowski
2014-01-27 10:55 ` Bastien
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From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2014-01-25 11:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Org-mode mailing list
Hi Org Devs and Users,
at present, the only reasonable values of org-table-copy-increment are
nil or non-nil. How about enabling to use it as an increment value?
This would be very useful in the following case: I want to make a table
with dates for subsequent classes (and table is better than headlines
for me, since for each class I put - among others - the number of
problems solved during that class, so that I can use the spreadsheet to
compute the total and average-per-hour numbers; useful for planning for
the remainder of the semester;)). It would be great to set
org-table-copy-increment to 7 so that I get timestamps increased by one
week.
Another change which would help me might be to have a special value like
'arithmetic, so that the increment could be computed from /this and
previous/ entries. (This might be even better, mimicking
Excel's/LibreOffice's functionality, which is a bit broken in those
applications, since it seems to require a mouse, but is very useful
nonetheless.)
Another, related problem I have with org-table-copy-down is that it
overwrites rows. It might be better for it to insert a new row /if/
the entry in the next row is nonempty.
What do you think?
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
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* Re: org-table-copy-down feature request
2014-01-25 11:32 org-table-copy-down feature request Marcin Borkowski
@ 2014-01-27 10:55 ` Bastien
2014-03-15 11:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2014-01-27 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marcin Borkowski; +Cc: Org-mode mailing list
Hi Marcin,
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
> at present, the only reasonable values of org-table-copy-increment are
> nil or non-nil. How about enabling to use it as an increment value?
> This would be very useful in the following case: I want to make a table
> with dates for subsequent classes (and table is better than headlines
> for me, since for each class I put - among others - the number of
> problems solved during that class, so that I can use the spreadsheet to
> compute the total and average-per-hour numbers; useful for planning for
> the remainder of the semester;)). It would be great to set
> org-table-copy-increment to 7 so that I get timestamps increased by one
> week.
What about accepting an Org formula as the "increment" value?
> Another change which would help me might be to have a special value like
> 'arithmetic, so that the increment could be computed from /this and
> previous/ entries. (This might be even better, mimicking
> Excel's/LibreOffice's functionality, which is a bit broken in those
> applications, since it seems to require a mouse, but is very useful
> nonetheless.)
Yes -- the formula would make this possible too.
> Another, related problem I have with org-table-copy-down is that it
> overwrites rows. It might be better for it to insert a new row /if/
> the entry in the next row is nonempty.
The default behavior seems TRT here, but an option could refine it.
> What do you think?
Thanks for raising this,
--
Bastien
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* Re: org-table-copy-down feature request
2014-01-27 10:55 ` Bastien
@ 2014-03-15 11:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2014-03-15 11:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Dnia 2014-01-27, o godz. 11:55:25
Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> napisał(a):
> Hi Marcin,
>
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
>
> > at present, the only reasonable values of org-table-copy-increment
> > are nil or non-nil. How about enabling to use it as an increment
> > value? This would be very useful in the following case: I want to
> > make a table with dates for subsequent classes (and table is better
> > than headlines for me, since for each class I put - among others -
> > the number of problems solved during that class, so that I can use
> > the spreadsheet to compute the total and average-per-hour numbers;
> > useful for planning for the remainder of the semester;)). It would
> > be great to set org-table-copy-increment to 7 so that I get
> > timestamps increased by one week.
>
> What about accepting an Org formula as the "increment" value?
>
> > Another change which would help me might be to have a special value
> > like 'arithmetic, so that the increment could be computed
> > from /this and previous/ entries. (This might be even better,
> > mimicking Excel's/LibreOffice's functionality, which is a bit
> > broken in those applications, since it seems to require a mouse,
> > but is very useful nonetheless.)
>
> Yes -- the formula would make this possible too.
>
> > Another, related problem I have with org-table-copy-down is that it
> > overwrites rows. It might be better for it to insert a new row /if/
> > the entry in the next row is nonempty.
>
> The default behavior seems TRT here, but an option could refine it.
>
> > What do you think?
>
> Thanks for raising this,
>
You're welcome (and sorry for my delay).
I think the idea with a formula is great. How do you imagine
overwriting the default one? With a variable, or in a #+TBLFM line?
(I like the latter idea much better.)
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
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